appflame — Ukrainian product IT company that creates world-class products: Hily, Taimi, AdConnect, Mailkeeper, and more.
We are today: * 7 years, 500+ employees, offices in Kyiv, London, Limassol, and a coworking in Warsaw; * In 2025, appflame ranked 5th among the 50 best employers in Ukraine according to Forbes and won in the “Place for Growth” category.
Our apps Hily and Taimi are among the Top 5 dating apps in the U.S. with over 70 million users, while AdConnect and Mailkeeper specialize in developing and scaling our own B2B and B2C solutions.
Our mission: * Flame up the world with Ukrainian products.
Our goals: * Reach the top 5 list of product companies in the world. * Become a unicorn. * Turn Ukraine into a country where unicorns are born and thrive.
We are looking for daring, brave, and “crazy” people. Fans of creating real products and who dream about launching and developing cool startups. You have ambitions, we have comfortable conditions for their fulfillment.
Your project:
Hily. It is a dating app that allows users to be truly themselves and enjoy dating as they are. On Hily, users become part of a community where people find genuine connections and meaningful relationships.
The app ranks among the Top 5 dating apps in the U.S. by downloads, competing with market leaders such as Tinder and Bumble.
You will: * Lead multiple cross-functional engineering teams and act as the engineering stakeholder for your business domain * Be the single point of alignment for your teams — unify direction and drive strategic changes through to execution on the ground * Build a strong partnership with Product, collaborating closely to align on priorities and deliver outcomes together * Improve engineering effectiveness — delivery, quality, and cross-team collaboration * Define, improve, and enforce the teams’ SDLC and engineering processes * Mentor engineers and support their career growth; participate in performance management and OKR-setting * Participate in hiring and raise the bar for the teams * Set new standards, foster engineering culture, and drive adoption of modern engineering practices — including AI — while building visibility into team health
From you: * 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience * English level B1 or higher * Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or in a similar leadership role * Strong leadership, communication, and people management skills * Delivery & product ownership: align with stakeholders, communicate trade-offs clearly, highlight risks, and own outcomes * Comfort owning and shaping engineering processes / SDLC, including modern iterative practices * AI fluency: experience leveraging AI to optimize engineering workflows
Will be an advantage: * Experience with our stack — native iOS, Android, and PHP * Hands-on experience building and supporting agentic workflows; familiarity with SDD, LLM token economics, and context engineering
Your journey: message from the recruiter > interview > technical interview > system design interview > bar-raising > job offer.
Type of Cooperation: * Office in Kyiv or remote
We provide all conditions for your talents to be fully revealed. We are loyal to our people. Our loyalty doesn’t fade at the end of the working day. We do not leave our people alone with their problems: neither professional nor personal.
Join us.
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We are against all types of discrimination, bullying, and stereotypes. We provide equal employment opportunities regardless of race, skin color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, health status or any other characteristics.
